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INLPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it lrnd/y concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY HOWE, of Oneonta, in the county of Otsego, andState of New York, have invented a new and improved Mowing and Reaping-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in theart to make and use the same, reference being. had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure l represents a side elevation of my improved mowing andreaping-machine.-

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same, 'taken on the plane of theline :c x, iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. o

This invention' relates to certain improvements on the mowing andreaping-machine for which I made application for Letters Patent on orabout the 15th day of J uly,l868, the objeetof which was-to equalize thedraught, or rather to lregulate the action of the draught, on themachine, and to allow thel machine to cut while turning.

The present invention has the same object, and refers to those machinesin which lthe motion is transferred' from the wheels to a counter-shaft,while the aforesaid application had reference to those machines in whichthe driving-wheel shaft received and transmitted the motion.

The present invention consists in hanging on each end of thecounter-shaft a loose pinion, each pinion being connected with thecounter-shaft, by means of a ratchet-spring clutch.

The pinion on the left-hand side is smaller than the other, and it will,as it meshes into internal gear of the left-hand driving-wheel, carrythe counter-shaft around, while the other pinion will remain idle, notbeing able to revolve with the counter-shaft. The strain of the-Wholemachine is thus thrown upon the left-hand side, and consequently takenaway from the cutting-side, the machine being thus properly balanced. l

When the machine is turned around the left wheel, the right-hand pinionwill carry4 the counter-shaft.

A, in the drawing, represents a 'suitable frame of the machine.

B is the mainl axle.

O is the driving-wheel on the left-hand side.

D, that on the right-hand side.

E is the counter-shaft, hung in the frame A, or a desired.

Each wheel C D has internal gearing, as shown, that on the wheel D beinglarger in diameter than that on O.

Upon the ends of the counter-shaft are hung, 'respectively, the pinionsa andb, a meshing into O, and

b into D, as shown.

The pinion a. is necessarily smaller in diameter than h, as it meshesinto the smaller internal gear of O, its

axis being as far from that of G as that of the wheel bis om the axisoif the larger internal gear of D.

The pinions a b turn quite loose on the respective ends of the shaft,and each pinion meshes, with ratchetteeth on its inner edge, into a'sliding clutch, of which one, e, is arranged near e, and one, d, near b,on the shaft E.

These clutches are, by means of springs, held against their respectivepinions, so that, when, by either of the pinions, the clutch is turnedin the direction of the arrow in lig, 1, the counter-shaft will also beturned, and will convey its motion, by means of suitable mechanism, tothe cutter-bar and other machinery of the harvester. Instead of theclutches c d, other equivalent devices maybe used.

When the machine is drawn straight ahead, both wheels C D revolve, withequal velocities, and still independent of each other, on the fixed axleB.

Each-wheel C D turns, also, its pinions a b; vButit is evident that,owing to the smaller diameter of a, it should turn quicker than itslarger opponent, b consequcntly the counter-shaft will be revolved bythe action of C' on a., and b will slip loose on it, and on its clutchd. The strain on the cutter-bar is thus balanced by throwing all workingpower upon the leftvhand wheel G.

The internal gearing of the wheels lC D need not be as diierent asdescribed; the axle E may be oblique, to bring the pinions c b againstthe toothed edge, the difference in size of aand b being important.

The wheel O is described as being on the left-hand side of the machine.This refers only tothose machines that have their cutting-apparatus onthe righthand side, the wheel C, with the small pinion a, being on theside opposite to the cutter-bar.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Thepinions a b, hungloosely on the ends of the counter-sha E, and connectedrespectively with sliding spring-clutches c fl, or their equivalents,and meshing into the internal gearing of the driving-wheels O and D,respectively, the pinion a, on the opposite side of thecutting-apparatus, being smaller than b, substantially as described, forthe purpose of balancing the strain of the machine, and for allowing itto cut when it turns a corner, as specified.

Witnesses: HENRY HOW'E.

ALEX. F. ROBERTS, FRANK R. BL00KLEY.

The cutting-apparatus will

